Gears of War: Judgment
"Gears of War: Judgment" takes you back before events of the original "Gears of War" trilogy to the immediate aftermath of Emergence Day - the defining event of the "Gears of War" universe. Follow Kilo Squad…
Gears of War: Judgment is a shooter developed by Epic Games, released 19 March 2013 on Xbox 360. The main story takes about 5 hrs to finish.
What Gears of War: Judgment is
Gears of War: Judgment is a shooter game developed by Epic Games and released in 2013. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only. It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story unfolds in the earliest, most desperate days after Emergence Day, the catastrophic moment when the monstrous Locust horde first erupted from beneath the surface of the planet Sera to seize humanity's cities. Amid the chaos, a small band of soldiers known as Kilo Squad, led by the sharp-tongued mechanical genius Lieutenant Damon Baird and including the boisterous former athlete Augustus Cole, fights to survive as the Locust overrun the coastal city of Halvo Bay. The tale is told through flashbacks, framed as testimony delivered before a stern military tribunal, where Kilo Squad stands accused of grave crimes. As each member recounts their version of events, the harrowing story of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Gears of War series
Gears of War: Judgment is the seventh of 12 entries we hold in the Gears of War series. It arrived a year after Gears of War 3: Epic Edition. The next entry was Gears of War 4 in 2016. Its critic score of 77 is 6 points below the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Gears of War 3 at 97.
How it was received
Gears of War: Judgment holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 155 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 5 hrs.
What it launched against
Gears of War: Judgment launched on 19 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Age of Empires II HD. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gears of War: Judgment yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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Characters
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